Note: in the written music, up to this point, i’ve been writing the guitar sounding note E4 as 2nd string, 5th fret. You can instead get the same note with 1st string open.
Vocals and guitar:
Piano instrument:
Guitar instrument:
I’m saved, now
Thinking, certainly, it happens—
you get caught up in a dress,
or, to date, you get mad as the dickens,
hungry for a woman to confess
that a kiss would right every wrong.
A pattern, i find, is standing in for
me—something that can’t be long
from now; but there’s a closing door,
and I can’t discern what it could be.
Telling them I love them, too,
all at once, hardly a memory,
since this is the love i never knew.
Becoming a mother at His age,
the world’s alight, and I must pay.
Heading for the incumbent stage,
vacated by Him, just for today—
Come down, blue eyes, from your tree:
I can be strong, just like those
that, all at once, came before me,
teaching me that this is how it goes,
looking both ways at the same time.
A drop, dear heart, from me to you,
living on the promises of rhyme;
I’m saved, now, no matter what i do.
Tell me i’m as handsome as the rest,
build me up, so i can follow through,
since, in my eyes, you’re the best,
deserving of His mortal coup—
going straight to heaven above,
one hand on His ice-cold glass,
the other on the one you love.
So, if I should give this ace a pass—
wise to love what loves me, too,
sticking to what turns the world on,
doing whatever they want to do,
I do it for love—before it’s gone.
Come down, blue eyes, from your tree:
I can be strong, just like those
that, all at once, came before me,
teaching me that this is how it goes,
looking both ways at the same time.
A drop, dear heart, from me to you,
living on the promises of rhyme;
I’m saved, now, no matter what i do.